Prospects for Managing Turfgrass Pests with Reduced Chemical Inputs

摘要: Turfgrass culture, a multibillion dollar industry in the United States, poses unique challenges for integrated pest management. Why insect control on lawns, golf courses, and sport fields remains insecticide-driven, how entomological research extension can best support nascent initiatives environmental sustainable lawn care are explored. High standards aesthetics playability, prevailing business models, risk management–driven decisions, difficulty predicting outbreaks fuel present reliance preventive insecticides. New insights into biology, sampling methodology, microbial insecticides, plant resistance, conservation biological reviewed. Those gains, innovations reduced-risk should make it possible to begin constructing holistic management plans key turfgrass pests. Nurturing public's interest wildlife habitat preservation, including beneficial insects, may be one means change aesthetic perceptions an...